OFFICIAL JOURNEYS. 471 
360 persons, including 27 members of the International Mathematical 
Congress, which had been held in Toronto from August 12 to August 16. 
The members travelled in two special trains provided by the Canadian 
National Railway (Train A) and the Canadian Pacific Railway (Train B) 
respectively. Each train consisted of a baggage-car, car for the train 
staff, two dining-cars, eight standard sleeping-cars, and one observation 
car with sleeping compartments. The total length of each train was 
about 370 yards; this was increased, on the mountain section of the 
Canadian Pacific route, by the addition (kindly made by the railway 
company to both trains) of an open observation car. The trains travelled 
on the outward journey to Vancouver over the lines of the Canadian 
National Railway (excepting the section from North Bay to Cochrane— 
Timiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway); the return journey was 
made over the Canadian Pacific line. The rate for the journey to Vancouver 
and back, including sleeping accommodation, was fixed at $100, and 
table d’héte breakfast, luncheon and dinner were provided in the dining- 
cars at a total charge of $3 per day. The local committee in Toronto 
generously invited some of the members to make the journey as their 
guests, with a remission or reduction of the travel rate. Contributions 
toward the cost of the excursion were made by some of the provincial 
governments, and the most generous hospitality was enjoyed at every 
point, at the hands alike of public bodies and private individuals. The 
excursion was acknowledged by all who were privileged to take part in it 
as an unqualified success and a wonderful experience, and among all those 
who laboured to make it so the gratitude of the participants is especially 
due to Mr. D. B. Hanna, to whom, as chairman of the Finance and Trans- 
portation Committee in Toronto, fell the major part of the preliminary 
arrangements with the railway companies; to Dr. Willet G. Miller and 
Dean R. W. Brock (of the University of British Columbia), who shared the 
planning of the excursion and the conduct of the party ; to Sir Robert 
Falconer, President of the University of Toronto, who also generously 
sacrificed his time to join the excursion, and to Prof. W. A. Parks, who 
represented the local executive on Train B. The stafis of the two trains 
were admirably efficient. 
Sunday, August 17.—The trains, carrying the excursion party with the 
exception of the botanists and geologists referred to below, left the Union 
Station, Toronto (254 ft.),2 in the evening. 
Monday, August 18.—At Timacamt (309 m., 986 ft.)? a botanical 
party of some 25 members, who had left Toronto on August 14, joined 
the main body. 
This party had reached Timagami in the morning of August 15, and were 
conveyed by steamer on the lake to Bear Island, the members being distributed for 
purposes of sleeping accommodation between Turner’s Camp, Prof. Faull’s laboratory 
on Bear Island, and Smith’s Camp on Garden Island. 
In the afternoon of August 14 a motor-launch conveyed the party to Timagami 
Island (north end), a trail being then followed for about four miles through virgin 
forest to the Wabikon Camp at the south of the Island. Chief Ranger Hyndson 
conducted the party. Interesting examples of old trees of both red and white pine 
were seen en route, as well as very characteristic undergrowth and fine examples of 
regeneration by deciduous trees after the coniferous forest had been destroyed by fire. 
2 Distances of principal points are given in miles (m.) from the start of the excursion 
at Toronto throughout ; elevations in feet above sea-level. 
